The Role of UNEP in Environmental Protection - the Iraq War 1990 - 1991

Granter

University of ZagrebThe Faculty of Political Science

Lower level organizational units

Department of International Relations and Security Studies

Place

Zagreb

State

Croatia

Scientific field, discipline, subdiscipline

SOCIAL SCIENCESPolitical ScienceInternational Relations and National Security

Study programme type

university

Study level

graduate

Study programme

Political Science

Academic title abbreviation

mag. polit.

Genre

master's thesis

Language

Croatian

Defense date

2017-09-22

Parallel abstract (English)

This paper analyzes effects on the ecosystem after war in Iraq. Conflict between Iraq and Kuwait had many effects which needed guidance from outside, because countries that were part of the conflict couldn't handle the situation alone. Opened valves of oil terminals, lots of oil in the Persian Gulf, about 11 million barrels of oil deliberately released, 700 burning wells in the Kuwait area, had led to damage of the whole infrastructure, and to ecological disaster. UNEP had been activated in this process from the beginning of the conflict through next tasks: determining the state of the ecological system before the conflict, determining the state of the ecological system after the conflict, monitoring the situation through the work of scientist, and creating programs of rehabilitation of ecosystem through cooperation with other international organisations. Even though this process needed lot of planning, and it was hard to get validate data, UNEP had approached the area through field visits of its mission, and prepared detailed environmental reports and a draft rehabilitation program of the ecosystem, and it has proved that international organizations can deal with this kind or problems and make plans for rehabilitation of ecosystem through cooperation.